Mission Statement of the Fraunhofer LBF

We enable reliable, circular and competitive high‑tech products for German and European industry.

As an established partner to industry, we develop innovative solutions that accelerate innovation through end‑to‑end digitalization across the entire product lifecycle, the closure of material and value loops, and the mastery of increasing technical complexity. In doing so, we promote a sustainable use of resources and contribute to Germany’s and Europe’s technological and resource sovereignty.

As a research partner to industry, we accelerate the development of safe, efficient and durable products by combining materials, structures and systems expertise with artificial intelligence, digital twins and circularity strategies across the entire product lifecycle.

With our holistic system competence, we rapidly transfer safe and sustainable solutions into industrial application. In this way, Fraunhofer LBF positions itself as an internationally leading player for smart and reliable solutions for load‑bearing, high‑performance and multifunctional systems.

Our expertise supports the development of highly resilient materials, components and structures, encompasses the control of vibrations and noise in technical systems, and extends to the integration of intelligent functions from the material level through to system engineering. We support the product development process along the V‑model and interlink the phases of development, validation and use.

Our teams conduct research at the interface of science, industry and society to drive sustainable, needs‑based and affordable innovations that meet the highest requirements for reliability, efficiency and resilience. Through solutions with clear unique selling points, Fraunhofer LBF strengthens the competitiveness of its partners, accelerates innovation processes, and supports Germany’s and Europe’s technological and resource sovereignty.

Holistic, digitally supported system competence – from material development to system validation – for innovative, sustainable and competitive solutions.

Fraunhofer LBF offers comprehensive expertise ranging from material development and structural and functional integration to system validation and the feedback of gained insights into the development and usage phases of modern products. By combining virtual and experimental simulation with tailored design approaches and multiphysical validation, we create innovative, market‑ready solutions. This is enabled by highly qualified, transdisciplinary teams and state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure.

Our key strengths include:

• System reliability
  With more than 85 years of experience, we ensure the functionality, efficiency and reliability of products under a wide range of operating conditions. We understand and address the entire product lifecycle.
• Focus on sustainability
  We develop resource‑efficient and safe material, structural and system solutions designed for circularity and long service life.
• Digitalization
  We develop and apply digital twins, cyber‑physical approaches and AI methods (e.g. physics‑informed machine learning) to analyse, assess, monitor, predict and safeguard product properties, process influences and relevant property changes across the entire product lifecycle.
• Agile innovation processes
  In close cooperation with industry and academia, we respond flexibly to new market requirements, assemble tailored teams and transfer knowledge across industries.

Shaping the industry of tomorrow – together with our partners!

Through long‑standing experience and close, practice‑oriented collaboration, we deliver solutions that enable our partners to increase efficiency and quality in product development, realise intelligent product functions, and advance sustainability and circularity in product design and use. Our innovations are precisely tailored to our partners’ needs – we speak their language.

Together with our partners, we bring innovative and sustainable solutions into industrial application and thereby strengthen their competitiveness.

To realise our vision and mission and to fulfil our ambition of holistic system competence, we focus on the following strategic priorities:

• Bundling competences
  We merge our interdisciplinary expertise to best support our partners in developing highly reliable, innovative material, structural and system solutions and in implementing digitalisation in a holistic manner.
• Promoting circularity and decarbonisation
  Our developments contribute to intelligent, efficient and safe products that enable circularity and can be integrated into material and value loops in a resource‑efficient and sustainable way.
• Advancing AI in product development and use
  We apply AI‑based simulation and reliability methods to accelerate the development and evaluation of materials, structures and systems, to precisely assess and predict product properties across the entire product lifecycle, and to preserve knowledge for the long term.
• Strengthening partnerships
  We expand our collaboration with existing and new partners to develop innovative solutions and to provide new impulses both in established and emerging industries.
• Fostering talent
  We create a modern research environment to attract, develop and empower top talent for the challenges of the future.

Through these measures, we shape the industry of tomorrow together with our partners – innovative, sustainable and reliable, for a future‑ready society.